The frame and mount play their own roles when it comes to framing your artwork. When you are framing pieces of art, prints or photographs, you need to be ruthless when it comes to choosing the frame and mount. Most professional framers will tell you honestly what type of picture frame will suit your particular piece.
When framing photographs, you should crop any unwanted parts of the image before you frame it. Having unnecessary space before you reach the mount and the photo frame will not help to enhance the photograph. Photographs don’t have to stay the size that they came in from the developers, you can have them any size you like.
To really make your photographs stand out once they are inside their new frame is to have a wide, neutral mount. Mounts are there to guide the eye towards your piece of art and to help enhance it. It shouldn’t detract from the beauty of the photograph, print or painting in any way, which is why you should choose a neutral colour for your mount.
Similarly with your frame, neutral colours are often best because they have clean, simple lines. You can choose coloured frames if you wish but choose the colours carefully.